Lee.

Reading that article, I do wonder why the Jets and/or Wild haven't pursued a AA relationship with Rapid City.

Unless RC prefers to be independent/poorly run. There has to be a reason they affiliated with Colorado for two seasons and now piggyback onto the Reign with Los Angeles.

Now now, Winnipeg arena was only steep on the parts that were added on after the Jets were brokered into the NHL.

That upper deck, Jesus Christ. God help the drunks who slipped on the way to their seats (I.e. me)

With the Jets ticket waiting list and the staggering prices, is say the Moose would be in the 4000 range.

But I don't live there anymore so really, what do I know

FWIW the Jets aren't moving the farm to Thunder Bay until the red tape clears around that arena project. They have two more years on the rock, but after that, there's an excellent chance the Moose may return until something more permanent makes its presence known

Now to find a suitable name for University of Phoenix Stadium.

Two successful businessmen outwitted by a stamp collector. OITGDNHL

I have no doubt that the next franchise owner will be a Nigerian prince who wrote Bettman a really convincing email.

Fitting that Mr Coyote would be the guy who said, "the team can't go to Winnipeg, I have a no move clause in my contract."

Of course I deleted the email. Right after I printed sixteen copies.

Honest to Christ, it's like F-Troop down there.

"We don't own the 5500 parking spots we're proposing to charge for so its a license agreement or its a license agreement."

That town deserves everything it's brought down on itself.

The level of interest in NYC was amazing. Walk down any street in Manhattan during a match, and cheers ring out from every bar and restaurant you pass. Offices shut down during matches, as conference rooms got repurposed into viewing parties. Doubly so when the US was playing. During that last match, I was walking through Midtown and there were several impromptu sidewalk gatherings as dozens of New Yorkers gathered around to peer in windows or watch on temporary projection screens at sidewalk cafés. It was marvelous.

I hope NYCFC can tap into just a little of that spirit. Gods know that we love the sport in this city; good we'll finally have a team in MLS.

Honestly, its as if you're daring Panthers to come along and respond to this.

Someone got a thesaurus for easter.

Other than the 'Pigs script and the fauxback liberty bell cap, this is awful across the board.

Brandiose has gotten progressively more and more masturbatory since changing their name from Plan B.

I certainly hope they arrived at a suitable financial arrangement with the Mariners to appropriate their copyright.

That would be awesome. Find a lake in rural Minnesota (no great feat) and set up some temporary bleachers. Unforgettable scene.

Set up bleachers on the riverbank, play hockey on the Red in Winnipeg in February. Boom. Done.

Three caps! What restraint!

IT'S ALL THE SAME

Also, "San Bernadino"?

They spend the rest of their lives down in San Berdino.

Akron used to be the home to pretty much every major tire manufacturer in America. They could have gone with the name Vulcans, hired someone other than Brandiose, and wound up with a pretty good and hopefully unique identity that didn't feature toothy duck mascots with XTREEM ATTITUDE and bevels, so many bevels.

Or they could have stuck with Aeros and built around that. In short, I hate Brandiose.

Now THAT I like.

Funny. Call the team Rubbernecks, I think they'd be onto something.

RubberDucks, and it's a POS.

Go take a nap, Brandiose. You guys are getting stale.

Much of the league's Minnesota era expansion can be boiled down to "which town is dumb enough to build us an arena first." Hence Columbus over Cleveland, Nashville over any other possible market, etc

Yeah but it's not like El Paso has the only minor league team in Texas. There's an entire league deducted to Texas, so I don't know why you're worried about that side of things.

They'll rebrand in two years. This is just atrocious.

I understand -- and endorse! -- the idea of Minor-League Whimsy™, but I feel as if Triple A calls for a little bit more gravity. Stuff like the Norfolk Tides or Fresno Grizzlies is perfect AAA branding to me: just a little bit more going on than a Major League team would have, but still somewhat serious. If I had to guess from the name, the city size, and the tired-ass Brandiose cartoonishness, I would guess that the "El Paso Chihuahuas" were in the same league as the Eugene Emeralds. I'd be wrong!

This. All of this right here, especially the last couple of sentences.

This is a wonderful Brandiose logo. Unfortunately, it's not a very good El Paso logo. For better or for worse, we can all tell a Brandiose logo at this point, and it's because they are all possessing extremely similar graphic and artistic styles. A little variety would be nice.

Plan B/Brandiose is really just working off of reputation at this point. This entire set looks phoned in, and reminiscent of pretty much everything else they've done since 2011.

Chihuahuas it is.http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20131022&content_id=63238558&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb